Playbills [ Print culture / Sports & Leisure ]
… Patriots, Duchess of Portland, Lady DunCannon, Hon. Mrs. Bouverie, and others. 16 16 . As transcribed in James Gregory, ‘Parody Playbills: The Politics of the Playbill in Britain in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries’, Electronic British … dramatis personae, the bill parodies the social network surrounding the campaign of ‘Champion of Liberty, Mr. Fox’. This parody bill, like the many other examples from the eighteenth century, relied on both an understanding of the playbill as … whom the in-joke could be shared and appreciated. 17 17 . Other examples are discussed by James Gregory in his article ‘Parody Playbills’ (see ‘Further Reading section’). As a result of their ability to point to a particular historical …
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